Yakata Shrine entrance by night

Starting out with a triple of images, taken to produce an HDR image of the Yakata Shrine entrance (coming up soon!), we noticed that the +2ev picture had great potential.

Played around a little in Photoshop, and — voila!

Kanteibyo

The famous chinese temple Kanteibyo in Kobe.

Inari's torii walk, Minatogawa

Another one of these temple walks leading up to the shrine of the kitsune god Inari, clutching the keys to the granary in his maw. This one in the large Minatogawa temple in central Kobe.

The Minatogawa shrine

The Minatogawa shrine is possibly the largest of the Shinto temples in Kobe. Gorgeous, as are they all.

Teeming Kobe in the evening sun

With the red of the cranes and bridges positively aglow with the evening sun's golden rays.

A Kobe Sunset

Not how Carbonara is done

My lunch yesterday was supposed to have an egg-yolk spread over the scallions and stirfried meat on top of the rice.

So instead of cracking the egg for me, I get an egg. And an egg separator. And two bowls. Get crackin'!

Buttocks up

In Sannomiya, close to the train stations, this statue may be found. It's one of the more explicit homages to the female curves in the area - though gelded and tall curvaceous women with rather more European faces are found all around the area my hotel is in.

Kobe Mosque

The Mosque in Kobe, crammed in at the very south end of the Kitano part of town. Nearby, a number of turkish restaurants, halal grocers and other noticable features of its demographic were noticable.

The Ikuta Shrine

The main gates at the Shrine at Ikuta, the shrine that gave name to the city Kobe. I went there today with a few jetlagged mathematicians; and we were lucky enough to witness parts of a Shinto wedding ceremony while walking the grounds.